Conservative women to White House: You don’t speak for us

posted at 10:31 am on April 6, 2012 by Tina Korbe

For the third year in a row, the White House will host a conference to highlight women’s issues — and to tout all that this administration has supposedly done to advance the welfare of women in society:

The White House Council on Women and Girls is hosting the White House Forum on Women and the Economy where business leaders, education leaders, and Cabinet secretaries will discuss a gamut of issues from healthcare to workplace flexibility to help for small businesses run by women. President Obama will address the diverse group of participants when he gives the keynote remarks in the morning session.

There will also be breakout sessions where there will be further discussions on ways to help women’s lives better through economic and social policy. Several Cabinet secretaries, like Attorney General Eric Holder and Labor Secretary Hilda Solis will lead panel discussions.

The White House will also be releasing a 55-page report on all the ways various departments and agencies have implemented policies to benefit women. Some examples of those initiatives are focusing on equal pay for women, affordable college education, tax cuts that benefit women, and healthcare policies, like the recent controversial coverage of contraceptives.

Conservative women see through the ruse. For weeks, the administration has reduced issues of concern to women to just one — the question of whether insurers will be made to cover the costs of women’s contraception. What the White House is, perhaps, belatedly realizing is that women care about more than just birth control. As the nation’s fastest-growing segment of small-business owners, they care about the business climate created by tax and regulatory policy. As moms who fill the gas tank to drive their kids to school, they care about energy prices and education policy. As single young women saving for their futures, they care about the coming implosion of entitlement programs. Women’s political “issues,” in other words, are really not very different from men’s “issues” — even though women themselves are different than men. At the same time that the president insists that women should be members at Augusta, he plays identity politics in a way that marginalizes the women he reduces to gender alone.

Smart Girl Politics co-founder Teri Christoph says it like this: “Women are tired of the political manipulation of this White House. We know when we are being pandered and played to, and we will no longer allow this discussion to focus on the concerns of a small segment of the women in this country. Women are far more concerned with the lack of action from this Administration and a do-nothing Congress when it comes to jobs, rising energy prices, and our national security.”

SGP yesterday released a video to tell the White House: You don’t speak for us. Refreshing to know I’m not the only one who feels that way. Who speaks for me? I do.

The Extreme Poverty Rate – Income Below Half Of Federal Poverty Line – Is The Highest Ever Recorded Among Women. “The ‘extreme poverty rate’ among women was the highest ever recorded, climbing to 6.3 percent in 2010 from 5.9 percent in 2009. ‘Extreme poverty’ means that your income is below half of the federal poverty line—and by 2010, more than 7.5 million women had fallen into that dire category.” (Leslie Bennetts, “Women: The Invisible Poor,” The Daily Beast, 9/14/11)

In 2010, 17 Million Women Lived In Poverty, Compared To 12.6 Million Men. “What all those statistics add up to is that more than 17 million women were living in poverty last year, compared with 12.6 million men. As usual, things were worse for older women; twice as many women over 65 were living in poverty, compared with men.” (Leslie Bennetts, “Women: The Invisible Poor,” The Daily Beast, 9/14/11)

The Poverty Rate Is 25.6 Percent For Black Women And 25 Percent For Hispanic Women. “And those numbers just represented the population-wide average. For Hispanic and black women, the poverty rate increased even faster and rose higher—to 25 percent for Hispanic women and to 25.6 percent for black women.” (Leslie Bennetts, “Women: The Invisible Poor,” The Daily Beast, 9/14/11)

More Than 40 Percent Of Single Mothers Live In Poverty. “As usual, single mothers are having the hardest time of all. More than 40 percent of women who head families are now living in poverty. With more than half of poor children living in female-headed families in 2010, the child poverty rate jumped to 22 percent.” (Leslie Bennetts, “Women: The Invisible Poor,” The Daily Beast, 9/14/11)

“Women Aren’t Faring As Well As Other Groups In The Job Market’s Recovery And That Could Put A Dent Into Their Support For President Obama.” (Vicki Needham, “Slower Job Growth For Women Voters Could Cost Obama In Election,” The Hill’s “On The Money,” 3/25/12)

And all of Barry’s former college gal pals are lining up to sing his praises, oh wait …
NO ONE ever went out with him, studied with him, even remembers him.
Ø’Bambi, as a foreign exchange student, must have been traumatized by those nasty crackers. His racist daddy channeled his hateful tripe via a book of nightmares, er dreams.Just UndØ It
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The White House will also be releasing a 55-page report on all the ways various departments and agencies have implemented policies to benefit women. Some examples of those initiatives are focusing on equal pay for women, affordable college education, tax cuts that benefit women, and healthcare policies, like the recent controversial coverage of contraceptives.

Why is it okay to publish a report that is so blindly political? Tax dollars are being used to make a constituency feel good about a particular administration. All government work product should be directed towards policy, rather than marketing. If OFA wants to do it, fine. But don’t abuse your office to engage in political stunts like this.

And all of Barry’s former college gal pals are lining up to sing his praises, oh wait …
NO ONE ever went out with him, studied with him, even remembers him.
Ø’Bambi, as a foreign exchange student, must have been traumatized by those nasty crackers. His racist daddy channeled his hateful tripe via a book of nightmares, er dreams.
Just UndØ It
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Karl Magnus on April 6, 2012 at 10:46 AM

Don’t worry, we’ll hear about it all once 0bama’s out of office. I wonder how much he and the Chicago Mafia had to pay out to keep them quiet these past 6 years or so.

I’m offended by the notion that my chromosomes mean that I need special treatment by the federal patriarchy. I’m perfectly capable of taking care of myself, thank you, and my public policy needs are no different from those of XY people. My greatest public policy need is for the federal patriarchy to stay the h3ll out of my life.

When is the White House Council on Men and Boys? There are many issues there: discrimination in divorce proceedings, discrimination in educational focus, presumptions of guilt and gender bias in rape and harassment accusations, unequal application of FMLA, etc.

For every self-thinking conservative woman who see through Obama’s ruse there are 10 zombie liberal women who are dumb enough to swoon and clap with every utterance that leaves his lips. They lap up what they hear and are blind to what is happening before their eyes.

This is an excellent opportunity for conservative women to try to attend the event. I recommend that every conservative woman try their best to attend the event because they will be denied. They can later claim that fact and state that Obama hates women.

Wow – when the respresentatives from the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood show up at the WH, will they be invited to this women’s forum? Wonder how they feel about public financing of birth control? I bet the topic of the conversation with the Brotherhood will be the “GOP War on Women” or maybe even gay rights…..what do you think?

I, as a life-long conservative woman, do get very embarrassed of my gender when it comes to their love of democrats as well as their love of wife abusers. A real woman doesn’t need a federal “Sugar Daddy” like Obama (or more appropriately a PIMP)
Once Romney shakes Santorum off his leg, his numbers with women will vastly improve to pre-primary levels (where he bested Obama)
The same goes with the independents.

Mr. President, we would love to attend your Women’s Forum but we must decline. We cannot afford to drive to the White House because of the high gas prices and cannot afford a plane ticket because we’re unemployed.

I’m offended by the notion that my chromosomes mean that I need special treatment by the federal patriarchy. I’m perfectly capable of taking care of myself, thank you, and my public policy needs are no different from those of XY people. My greatest public policy need is for the federal patriarchy to stay the h3ll out of my life.

obladioblada on April 6, 2012 at 10:51 AM

This.

Women’s equality is a lot like civil rights. We’ve already reached, and in some cases exceeded, the goals set by the Women’s Liberation Movement. But like Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton, today’s feminists are driven to find something, some unmet need, to keep them in a state of victimhood. And if they run out of reasons to feel persecuted, well they’ll just make something up. It’s their raison d’etre.

I’m offended by the notion that my chromosomes mean that I need special treatment by the federal patriarchy. I’m perfectly capable of taking care of myself, thank you, and my public policy needs are no different from those of XY people. My greatest public policy need is for the federal patriarchy to stay the h3ll out of my life.

Poll: Women boost Obama over Romney in swing states
April 02, 2012|Lily Kuo | Reuters
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Women voters helped President Barack Obama take a large lead over Republican front-runner candidate Mitt Romney in a dozen battleground states, a USA TODAY/Gallup poll said on Monday.

Imagine if all the conservative women in the various grass roots conservative groups, like SGPolitics, Mama Grizzlies, the tea parties, the 9.12 groups, the right to life groups, the home schooling groups, the Independent Women’s forum, etc., to also unite and organize politically inside the Republican Party at their local Republican committees as precinct committeewomen, so they could not only help GOTV but also vote for better, more conservative Party officers at the local, county, state and national committee levels, as precinct committeeman, and only precinct committeeman, elect the leadership of the Party. Half of these slots are vacant, on average, in every county in the country. It’s not hard to become a PC and it’s vital. The Party currently is split about 50-50 between conservatives and moderates. Do the math. Fill up all the vacancies with conservatives and then the conservatives would have a 75% majority. And the party would be full-strength rather than half strength.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Women voters helped President Barack Obama take a large lead over Republican front-runner candidate Mitt Romney in a dozen battleground states, a USA TODAY/Gallup poll said on Monday.

I dare PBHO to come to my place and presume to represent my wife, she would turn him into human origami and laugh while she did it. The only person PBHO speaks for is himself, the narcissistic chump

I’d love to see him try to pull this crap with my sister. She’s extremely conservative, quite a successful small business woman, and a great mom (she’s actually pretty amazing). She’d probably make our benevolant god-king cry.

It’s an incredible irony of the “Women’s Rights Movement” that the “feminists” who supposedly fought against women being reduced to “baby machines” are the ones who do so most vehemently, even proudly.

No one has less regard for women than the femisogynists who claim to speak for us. We know this in what they do, how they claim that “women’s health” is only about abortions and birth control, how they completely ignore the brutal oppression and murder of women in the name of Sharia, and how they can justify reducing women to the sum of their reproductive organs (while screeching that conservatives “hate” women!). It’s about time they called out for their true, dismissive, belittling, and extremely damaging view of women. Good job Smart Girl Politics and Hot Air!

Condoms and golf balls: This is what this pathetic administration is left with.

Remember, Libs, this is the same kind of echo chamber thinking that led you to get your ass*es spanked before the Supreme Court. Completely unprepared because all you do is talk among your sorry selves and chant in talking points.

I’m certainly going to sleep better tonight knowing that the (utterly useless, pompous gasbags on the) White House Council on Women and Girls are still active. Not only that, but I await with great anticipation the (horrendously expensive, unproductive, dull and pointless) report that they are going to issue to let me know about all the (fluffy bunny/feel good but ultimately wasteful, inefficient and ineffective) programs that they’ve put in place that have made my life (not one iota) better! Where would I be without Obama and his (arrogant, clueless academic know-nothings) helping me and all my fellow helpless sisters.

I’m offended by the notion that my chromosomes mean that I need special treatment by the federal patriarchy. I’m perfectly capable of taking care of myself, thank you, and my public policy needs are no different from those of XY people. My greatest public policy need is for the federal patriarchy to stay the h3ll out of my life.

I dare PBHO to come to my place and presume to represent my wife, she would turn him into human origami and laugh while she did it. The only person PBHO speaks for is himself, the narcissistic chump.

Bishop on April 6, 2012 at 10:36 AM

Same with my wife.

Bitter Clinger on April 6, 2012 at 10:53 AM

Same with ME, but I would never have him to my place.

MontanaMmmm on April 6, 2012 at 11:05 AM

Hey, my wife could beat up your wives! nyah nyah nyah

Really, I have not seen anyone who loathes Obozo more deeply than my wife. I can’t even repeat how she refers to him in conversation (F**k-Face, FF for short). She dislikes Hot Gas because she thinks we’re too nice to him. This is just one of the reasons I love her so much.